From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:54:18 -0500 Message-ID: <87fvco2jgl.fsf@netris.org> References: <87ppbvkwzj.fsf@gnu.org> <87k322cx77.fsf@gnu.org> <87oardq3n3.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3202k5u.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyZHp-0003l1-5r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:54:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyZHj-000202-Mt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:54:05 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:34440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyZHj-0001zx-JS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:53:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87k3202k5u.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:39:09 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Mark H Weaver writes: > Federico Beffa writes: >> What do you prefer? Revert to gobject-introspection 1.38.0, or got >> down the version dependency hell? > > I've started working on this. It turns out we have to go down quite a > rabbit hole. Among other things, 'eudev' must be updated [...] It turns out that even the most recent release of 'eudev' (2.1.1) fails to work with gobject-introspection 1.42.0. I looked in their git repo, and didn't see any commits addressing this issue. I think we should revert the gobject-introspection update for now. What do you think? Mark